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Hi Christopher, Jeremy Griffith’s work is not an idealistic plea for everyone to just behave cooperatively, it is a biological defence of realism which Jeremy makes clear in THE Interview. He explains why imposing artificial or pseudo idealism does not work and further explains pseudo-idealism in its current forms now actually threatens humanity. To quote Part 4: "In fact, while dogmatically insisting that everyone should be cooperative and loving could make you feel that you were doing good and be superficially psychologically very relieving, such insistence on ideal behaviour denied people the freedom of expression and individualism they needed to be able to continue the all-important upsetting search for knowledge. These movements were pseudo idealistic movements that stifled and oppressed the search for the understanding of our corrupted condition that was needed to actually free us from that state. They were regressive, not progressive as they deluded themselves they were. It was actually the right-wing who have supported the upsetting battle to find knowledge that held the moral highground, not the pseudo idealistic left-wing." You may find our FAQs about politics of interest which explain how this explanation brings a profound understanding to both sides of politics which ultimately will bring an end to the whole ugly business of politics.

That’s brilliant, Hendriette. And should you want to get started while your book arrives, Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM is freely available on our homepage HERE in numerous formats (along with all his other key books), including on Kindle for free from Amazon.

    Thanks for your interest, Joyce. Yes, consciousness emerged slowly, and as it began to gradually experiment with the power of free will so the criticism from our preestablished instincts slowly grew. It took millions of years before the criticism reached a point that the psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated state of the human condition emerged. You can read more about the emergence of consciousness in the context of humanity’s journey over the last 12 million years in chapter 8 of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, including the Development of Mental Cleverness chart in chapter 8:11C. You might also be interested in FAQ 1.41 which explains the relationship between the instinctive self and the conscious mind in more detail.      Rest assured that we here are totally devoted to getting this world-saving understanding out, and even though we haven’t yet reached the tipping point we are well on our way as you can see from the excitement and relief in our daily ecstatic responses to THE Interview and other WTM material and initiatives! Also on our homepage you can see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for Jeremy’s work with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres all over the world!

Undestanding the human condition means that we can now demystify religious concepts. For example, in chapter 8:16C–D of his definitive book FREEDOM, Jeremy explains how under the duress of the human condition in the world today, no mother or father has been able to adequately nurture their offspring with the unconditional love all children, in their incredible innocence and sensitivity, expect. This shortfall in nurturing has a shattering impact on our all-loving, innocent, instinctive self or ‘soul’. Now that we can understand the origins of our species’ psychologically upset or corrupted condition, we’re for the first time ever in a position to explore human psychosis from the safe foundation insight into the overall psychosis in all humans.

    Yes, ultimately to liberate ourselves from the human condition we needed scientific understanding of why we were right to search for knowledge / ‘eat the apple’, because only that could end the guilt and liberate us from the human condition. That is what is unique about what Jeremy has done, and why his work is such a massive breakthrough. In providing the scientific explanation for our corrupted condition, biological understanding is inevitably brought to religious accounts of our condition, which means we can at last truly understand religion and reconcile it with science.     With specific regard to Christianity, Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from that pre-science view, and he has written about Christ’s life and its phenomenal importance in humanity’s journey in Freedom Essay 39. Our FAQs about religion are also absolutely fascinating.

This is science, not religion. The reason that religion is brought into it is because the human condition is the study of humans’ capacity for acts of both so-called ‘good and evil’ and so it’s the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap. Ultimately, in explaining the human condition, religion is demystified and explained by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. For instance Jeremy Griffith explains that ‘God’ has been our personification of the law of physics of negative entropy – see FAQ 6.2. See also FAQ 1.15 ‘If this is a biological explanation why are there religious references?’.

    Yes, fundamental to healing ourselves is understanding how, despite all appearances to the contrary, we are fundamentally good, which is what Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition does, which is why it is described as “redeeming and rehabilitating”.     With regard to ‘God’, it is important to for those new to this work who are reading these comments to understand that what is presented is rational, fully accountable science. In explaining the human condition religious concepts are demystified, including the concept of ‘God’. You can read more about religion in our FAQs about religion.

It is true that humans have appeared to be a blight on the planet, destroying everything we touch, but what is so extraordinary about the biological ‘instinct vs intellect’ understanding is that it defends our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, all humans are good. Rather than wanting to “eliminate” humans, we can now understand that not only are humans good, but that we are the heroes of the whole story of life on Earth! And by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, it makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, which is what has been destroying the world, allowing us to return to a cooperative and loving state! Truly this understanding is the only thing that can make the world a better place.

    Hi Maggie, yes, and yes! Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM and the book version of THE Interview are freely available here on our homepage along with all his other key books, so there’s no need to buy one unless you are specifically after a hardcopy, which you can purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores.     Regarding audio books, THE Interview and some of Jeremy’s other books (The Great Guilt, Transform Your Life and Save the World, Death by Dogma and The Shock of Change that Understanding the Human Condition Brings) are all available on Audible. Otherwise, you can listen to our audio books (including the first 5 chapters of FREEDOM), podcasts and videos on our free WTM App for smart phones, which can be downloaded from the App Store on your phone or at these links: for android or for ios or iPhone. Also our entire Freedom Essay series (64 essays) is available to listen to on Spotify.

Thank you Barbara. Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our key material made freely available and you can register for free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy Griffith about this immensely relieving understanding. Also our Facebook Group provides a wonderful platform for participating in, or just observing, interesting and exciting discussion with others about how we can live with this critical new science.

Hi Kev, while various thinkers throughout history have recognised that our divisive, competitive and aggressive human condition is a product of a clash between our instincts and intellect, solving it required finding the clarifying explanation of the nature of that conflict, because only that could bring reconciling and transforming peace to our conflicted and divided selves, which is what biologist Jeremy Griffith has done, and what is unique about his work – see our FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new? / How does biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition differ from other theories that recognise these elements?’

That’s wonderful Leslie!! To help you progress after watching THE Interview here are our recommended next steps. The work of the WTM is a scientific pursuit and was not created for profit, so all of our information and materials (including books, videos and podcasts) are provided absolutely free of charge, no registration required: • Subscribe to our Mailing List where you will receive one email per week, occasional News Flashes, and notifications for our Live Events. • Watch the Main Videos where Jeremy Griffith (& others) talk you through the explanation of the human condition. • Read the Key Books by Jeremy Griffith. • Join and participate in our Facebook Group to learn about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. • Help this critical new science by sharing it!

    Thanks for your thoughts Mark but we disagree. Firstly, as is explained in Part 1 of THE Interview, humans’ divisive behaviour is not a product of unchangeable savage “wolves will eat the sheep” instincts within us, but the result of a universal psychosis caused by a clash between our instinct and intellect and significantly since a psychosis can be healed with understanding, human behaviour is not unchangeable or immutable – a revelation that transforms the human race. As is also explained in Part 1, the popular contention that selfish and aggressive behaviour is a manifestation of survival or selfish instincts was just a convenient excuse while we searched for the psychosis-addressing-and-solving real explanation of our divisive behaviour.     Secondly, Jeremy Griffith’s work is not an idealistic plea for utopia or for everyone to just behave cooperatively, it is a biological defence of realism. In fact THE Interview explains why imposing artificial or pseudo idealism “will never work!!!” and further explains pseudo-idealism in its current forms now actually threatens humanity because it stifled and oppressed the search for the understanding of our corrupted condition that was needed to actually free us from that condition, the human condition. See FAQ 6.5 ‘Is this just another self-help, New Age, pseudo idealistic, superficial-treatment-of-psychosis type movement?’

At last Carrie we have the answers about ourselves the human journey has been dedicated to finding! Given you mention the possibilities you once felt in your youth you may be interested in Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of Resignation. Briefly, the human condition — which is the question of are we a fundamentally good or bad species — is something almost all people have sensibly had to live in denial of until humanity could find the answer to it. Jeremy explains this necessary strategy of denial or ‘change’ as Resignation and describes it as the most significant psychological event in human life, see his Freedom Essay 30 as it is immensely revealing!

Thanks for your comment John. There is a lot to absorb in this presentation but we suggest the more you do the more you will realise that it explains humans’ psychological upset is not a product of mental conditioning but the result of a universal psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. And, significantly, a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding so the solution is simple and all-powerful as is explained in FAQ 1.40, which addresses the questions of ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’ To quote: “Even those who were most committed to defensively seeking validation through gaining power and material goods, including those entrenched in positions of power, will quickly realise how empty and obsolete that strategy is now that we have the fully accountable, psychosis-addressing-and-solving, real biological explanation of the human condition that proves our worth at the most fundamental level.”

Amazing this is mind blowing and gives us hope to understand thoughts and life saving skills planet saving skills better beings AMAZING GRACE!!!!!

Thank you Lorina and it is wonderful you are finding this knowledge so helpful and yes, now we have found the key understanding that ends the underlying pain in our brains we can become sound and sane again! For the benefit of readers of these commments although what is presented in THE Interview is science, it is based on a Godly nature in the sense of recognising, like all the great religions do, that we humans once lived in a pre-human-condition-afflicted state of original innocence where we were perfectly instinctively orientated to the cooperative, selfless, loving, ‘Godly’ ideals of life; ‘God’ being explained as being the integrative meaning of life, see FAQ 5.3 ‘What is the meaning of life? / What is the Integrative Meaning of existence? / What is God?’

Am glad to learn more about Jeremy Griffith’s views on the human condition and his book, Therapy for the Human Condition.

You can continue to explore this relieving understanding, Albert, by visiting our homepage, where you will find a road-map to pursue your interest, including registering for our interactive, live events with Jeremy Griffith and others, and joining our Facebook Group to engage in profound and clarifying discussions.

We recommend you read Jeremy’s book Therapy for the human condition, where Janov’s work is discussed in depth. What is explained is that, “Janov was certainly remarkably honest about the devastating effects of lack of love during our formative years, and he also pioneered his brilliant PRIMAL THERAPY techniques that help ‘patients go back and relive the original overwhelming scene, feeling or need [such as being rejected by their mother, or ignored by their father], bit by bit over time until it is finally resolved and out of the system’ — which is an excruciating connection that can cause a ‘primal scream’ in the patient, as he titled his first book. But, again, as helpful as his therapeutic insights are, Janov didn’t confront and explain our corrupted human condition, and thus he wasn’t able to provide the all-important, redeeming, therapising explanation of our psychologically distressed human condition that allows us to understand the origin and good reason for all the pain he was witnessing every day in his therapy rooms — nor did he know why we are born with ‘a pervasive need to be loved’; he didn’t know how nurturing created our species’ loving instinctive soul.”

For the benefit of readers of these comments it is important to stress that what is being presented is not religious, but is a rational, fully accountable, biological explanation of the human condition. However, the human condition is the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so naturally in explaining the human condition religious references will be used, and through scientific explanation, finally demystified and reconciled. For example, we can now understand that what we have referred to as ‘God’ is the negative entropy driven integrative tendency in the universe - you can read about God and negative entropy in FAQ 6.2.

Yes, deep down we all know that at base we are loving creatures, but without the defence of our aggressive behaviour we have not been able to admit how entirely cooperative and loving our instincts are. However, we now have that redeeming biological defence of our condition, and with that defence, it does become very clear that the idea that we have savage instincts is just an excuse that we used. You can read more about the savage instincts excuse in FAQ 1.2.

Hi Ramunda, Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM and the book version of THE Interview are freely available here on our homepage along with all his other key books, so there’s no need to buy one unless you are specifically after a hardcopy, which you can purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores. At the link provided you’ll see that some of Jeremy’s books are also available as audiobooks, including the Introduction and the first five chapters of FREEDOM, if that is a format you would also like to access for free!

If this is so w do men control their animal condition if they have high testosterone?

    Thank you for your comment, Stephen. We absolutely agree; as Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, has said about the plight of the world: “the fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can’t go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we’re entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-understanding.” The point he is making is that we need answers, especially about ourselves, and we need them urgently. So to save our world, we need to address the cause of the all the problems we face – whether they be climate change, environmental destruction, resource depletion or overpopulation – and that cause is the human condition, it is behind every issue on Earth (bar natural phenomena) and that is what Jeremy Griffith has addressed and solved, and that is why his work is heralded as being able to save the world.     We recommend you visit our ‘How to Help‘ page, for a list of suggestions for how to share this breakthrough.

Thank you for your comment Michael and we certainly respect people’s religious views. It is important to mention for readers of these comments that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or Christianity, or the Bible’s content. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts, see FAQ 6.3 ‘Does understanding of the human condition undermine a faith in religion or God?’

Thanks for your keen response, Patricia. To learn more, the following are our recommended next steps: • Keep updated through your free subscription to our free Mailing List, which enables you to receive one email per week, occasional News Flashes, and notifications for our Live Events. • Watch the Main Videos where Jeremy Griffith (& others) talk you through the explanation of the human condition. Totally free, no registration required. • Read the Key Books by Jeremy Griffith. Totally free to download, no registration required. • Join and participate in our Facebook Group to learn about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. • And please help this critical new science by sharing it!

Everybody is concerned about the destruction of our natural world, but as an ecologist you must be even more terrified by the dire plight of our planet. What we suggest will occur as as you digest this explanation of the human condition, is that you will start to see that environmental destruction is merely a symptom of a deeper problem and will not fundamentally change at all until we solve this dilemma of the human condition, and bring self-understanding to the human situation. It is this self-understanding that Jeremy Griffith has found with his brilliantly insightful ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition. As the highly esteemed ecologist Professor Stuart Hurlbert stated in 2022 about Jeremy’s treatise, ‘I am stunned & honored to have lived to see the coming of “Darwin II”’.

Thanks for your feedback Jason. As THE Interview explains, we’ve had no choice but to live in denial of the confronting subject of the human condition until we could fully explain it which blocked our access to so many reasonably obvious truths. We have taken comfort in ancient wisdom which resonates with our ‘heart’ or soul but ultimately our thinking mind needed understanding. Specifically, scientific understanding of why when the ideals are to be loving and selfless are we so competitive and selfish? This is what Jeremy Griffith’s treatise does and why it is heralded as the breakthrough that can save the world, see FAQ 1.3.

Great advise Thomas! The absolutely astonishing claims being made about biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work warrant initial scepticism and further the realm of the human condition is the most ‘muddied of pools’ with deluded charlatans everywhere. However what Jeremy is presenting is all first principle-based, rational, testable, biological understanding of the human condition which has attracted the support of eminent scientists and thinkers (see our homepage). And it is all free, there is no cost or registration involved. It’s all about knowledge that either stacks up or it doesn’t—and if it doesn’t you should throw it over your shoulder and reject it. Our FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be skeptical’ may be of interest.

It is certainly a relief, and so empowering, to now be able to understand we are not genetically competitive (as is explained in this Interview) so in that sense Billy there is no race but, as psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen has said, ‘the fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can’t go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we’re entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-understanding.’ The point he is making is that we need answers, especially about ourselves, and we need them urgently, and with Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition we now have that urgently needed self-understanding! See FAQ 1.6 about how understanding the human condition solves everything.

Hi Walter, we hope you find THE Interview as enlightening as the many thousands of others who have watched it! You can get a taste of the relief and excitement of finally being able to make sense of human life by exploring our homepage which presents the daily ecstatic responses THE Interview is receiving, the outstanding commendations Jeremy Griffith’s work has received from eminent scientists and thought leaders and the over 60 WTM Centres appreciative supporters have opened all around the world!! Also our Transformation page answers your all-important question of how does understanding the human condition work - how it is able to save the human race by rehabilitating our psychologically upset state, and by immediately transforming everyone’s life from a human-condition-stricken state to one that is effectively free of the human condition!

That’s great Charles! Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM and the book version of THE Interview are freely available HERE on our homepage along with all his other key books. Also some are available as audiobooks including the Introduction and the first five chapters of FREEDOM! If you haven’t yet watched THE Interview that is the best place to start as it provides the ideal summary presentation. Also we highly recommend its companion presentation The Great Guilt which you will also find at the link provided. Happy exploring!

Absolutely Mary at last love and compassion comes back to our hearts and minds! As you say this is a huge breakthrough and it is what every human has been striving for since the emergence of consciousness, and it redeems and rehabilitates every single human on the planet. Jeremy Griffith’s treatise explains that we became psychologically upset sufferers of the angry, egocentric and alienated human condition as the unavoidable result of a clash between our pre-established instincts and emerging conscious mind. It’s important to point out that this explanation allows us to understand that even though we became immensely psychologically upset or ‘damaged’ for participating in humanity’s search for knowledge, we aren’t ‘evil’; in fact, humans are the heroes of the story of life on Earth. And it’s this knowledge that legitimately allows us to return to our natural loving, selfless and cooperative instincts, so yes, as you mention, ‘love endures’. It also follows that those who have suffered the effects of the human condition more than others are even more heoric but necessarily also more insecure. So we can now look after ourselves with great compassion and kindness and significantly we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us, which is summarised in FAQ 1.19 ‘A caution about the danger of over-exposure / Advice for people with mental health issues’. We also recommend our wonderful Transformation page that explains more fully how this fabulous transformation of everyone’s lives occurs.

Something certainly is going very, very wrong Gull and that is why Jeremy Griffith’s work is such a revelation as it gets to the source of the problem and solves it! There is a lot here to digest; in particular that our selfish, egocentric behaviour is a result of a psychologically upsetting clash between our intellect and preestablished cooperative instincts. It is this insight into the psychological origin of our ‘very very wrong’ destructive behaviour that is unique about Jeremy’s work; and most significantly, this understanding means that that psychologically upset state can be ameliorated, because a psychosis can be healed through understanding. Also, THE Interview explains our fully conscious brain appeared some 2 million years ago, see FAQ 5.4 ‘What is consciousness? / Why is it that humans became conscious while other animals haven’t? / How did consciousness emerge in humans?’. As well you may find FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we humans acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience?’ and FAQ 1.29 ‘Is the human condition a biological or a psychological problem?’ most helpful.

Great to have your interest Shirley! After watching THE Interview at the top of our homepage, which presents the ideal short introductory summary of the human condition and its solution, it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes watching The Great Guilt video that explains the difficulty of the ‘Deaf Effect’ that reading about the human condition initially causes, and then The Great Transformation video about how understanding the human condition actually transforms the human race. You can also subscribe to our mailing list and join our popular Facebook Group! (All our publications are totally free, no registration required.)

We suggest you look deeper Joshua. THE Interview explains all humans are born with all-loving moral instincts (not ‘savage’ animal instincts) but now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition caused by the conscious mind’s necessary search for knowledge. What is so important about this ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation is that it finally explains the real reason for why humans’ competitive behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. Proving we were better than someone else gave us validation and reinforcement to counter the deep insecurity we felt about having to become self-corrupted. So competition, sustained by the incentives of materialism and capitalism and class systems, are what maintained humanity’s heroic search for knowledge, ultimately for self-knowledge. Now with our goodness and worth biologically established, we no longer need to be preoccupied with proving our goodness and worth. Solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source so we can actually stop the destruction of ourselves and save the world. See FAQ 1.40 ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’ THE Interview also explains the human condition is the most fearful of subjects because it’s the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad and our fear of this interface can produce an initial ‘deaf effect’ or, a ‘cognitive dissonance’ if that is what you are referring to, see FAQ 1.16.

Thank you for your comment Peter. There is a lot to absorb, even in this summary presentation, but with time we suggest people come to see just how universal a solution to the problems we face Jeremy Griffith’s work is (see FAQ 1.6). Because the human condition comes down to human biology it is ultimately a question for biologists to answer. However philosophers and also religion have grappled with this most profound of questions of whether we are intrinsically good or bad, and one of the remarkable things about Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM is just what an extraordinary collection of profound thought from all ages and fields of endeavour it contains, including Carl Jung. Also, you may find our FAQ 1.47 ‘How does Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition differ from the theories of Freud or Jung?’.